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Advanced Biological Marketing receives USDA scientific grant for corn research
Van Wert, Ohio
April 8, 2005

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently awarded Advanced Biological Marketing an $80,000 grant for its innovative research in fungicides. Advanced Biological Marketing was one of 129 small businesses in 42 states awarded with the Small Business Innovation Research grant.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Small Business Innovation Research awarded grants totaling over $18.1 million. The grants are based on scientific and technical merit and the ideas are investigator initiated. All grants are reviewed by a confidential peer review using outside experts from non-profit organizations.

Advanced Biological Marketing will use the grant for two phases of corn assays and research using T-22™ for Corn, a long-term companion fungicide that improves yield and protects against disease through the silking and tassling stage.

The first phase will predict how two-week-old seedlings will perform in field trials. The goal is to find which corn hybrids work well with T-22 for Corn. There will be approximately 75 hybrids tested. The second phase is to conduct independent field tests in Illinois and Ohio and compare the results to the two-week assays.

Several individuals are involved in the research process for T-22 for Corn. Below is a list of the key participants and their roles throughout this project:

  • Dan Custis, president of Advanced Biological Marketing. He will serve as the Primary Investigator and Coordinator

  • Leon Bird, owner of Bird Hybrids, principal stockholder and vice president of Advanced Biological Marketing. He is the coordinator of corn genetics and will provide assistance in coordination with the field testing program.

  • Dr. Jim Dodd, Professional Seed Research. He will conduct field disease resistance testing.

  • PSL Genetics will conduct yield testing.

  • Dr. Gary Harman, professor, Cornell University. He developed T-22 for Corn and will conduct rapid laboratory assays and analyze relationships of data.

In more than 500 university and commercial field trials T-22 for Corn has shown on average a five percent yield increase. However, some research has reported more than 50 percent yield increase.

“We are excited to be given this grant so we can continue our research and improve one of the most innovative fungicide products,” said Dan Custis, president of Advanced Biological Marketing. “Ultimately, we want to find the seed hybrids that work best with T-22 for Corn to continue to increase yield for farmers.”

T-22 for Corn was developed by Cornell University. Advanced Biological Marketing and Cornell University have demonstrated that T-22 for Corn has protected corn plants from soil-borne pathogens Pythium, Fusarium, Sclerotina and Rhizoctonia. T-22 for Corn contains a unique strain of the beneficial fungus Trichoderma harzianum Rifai that grows with the root system of the plant.

Advanced Biological Marketing (ABM) is a Van Wert, Ohio based marketer of specialty products for production agriculture in the United States and Canada. ABM products are some of the most advanced available today. ABM is committed to educating its customers about the latest advances in agriculture. The company was founded in 2000.


T-22™ is a trademark of BioWorks, Inc., Fairport, NY, USA.

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